Quotes About Self

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.